FAA: Smyrna Airport Tower will remain open

11:38 PM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Written by

Doug Davis
The Daily News Journal

The town's airport air traffic control tower will remain open in spite of earlier federal sequestration plans to close it, John Black, executive director of the Smyrna-Rutherford County Airport Authority, announced Friday.

The news came to him in an email from David Grizzle, chief operating officer of the Federal Aviation Administration.

"What a relief," Black said. "The email said they basically reviewed each airport (that would be affected by the air traffic control closures) and consulted with the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security and conducted ...